There’s No Way Newcastle Will Overturn Tiote’s Sending Off

Kevin Nolan has said that Newcastle will appeal the sending off of Cheick Tiote on Saturday against Stevenage.

Cheick Tiote being sent off on SaturdayTiote’s sending off came at a bad time for Newcastle, and it seemed that everything went wrong against Stevenage – and the proverbial wheels came off the Newcastle wagon.

But the way things were going, we’re not sure if Tiote had stayed on, it would have made too much difference, but of course you never can tell.

This is what captain Kevin Nolan said today:

“I’m very disappointed with Andre Marriner’s decision,” “I thought he reffed it very well but that was not a sending off in a million years. I saw it on the telly and in real time.”

“Even the center-half after said he didn’t touch him. It would be nice for him to come out and say that in the Press because it might help us get him off.”

“They were all about winning the game and you do anything to win the game, but he stayed down a long time for a center-half.”

Tiote did have both feet off the ground in his sending off challenge, and really the FA need to clarify the sending off offenses for tackles, as Steven Gerrard of Liverpool seemed to be sent off yesterday at Old Trafford for a tackle that looked OK to us.

We’ll not even mention the current offside law, and which players are active or not – because that’s just a complete joke these days.

A player these days can be in an offside position when the ball is played into the penalty box, but the player is said to be not active because he doesn’t go for the ball and therefore is not offside, but then 4 seconds later he can put the ball into the back of the net and it’s a goal. It’s a silly rule which is open to abuse.

Newcastle will appeal the red card decision on Saturday, which carries a three-match ban with it, but they will not be successful in overturning the decision, and the best they can hope for is to ensure it’s a non frivolous appeal, so that the ban is not extended to 4 games.

Who now deputizes for Tiote against Sunderland is an open question because the last two times Alan Smith has come in – last Saturday and at West Brom, the central midfield has been over-run.

Maybe Coloccini could be deployed there as the holding midfielder.

He”s played there before, and it’s something my son Neil suggested yesterday, and of course Dan Gosling is fit again, and may even play against Sunderland.

he was in the air but by the time the player reached him has grounded made the tackle with one foot studs down and actually had to scoop his leg back to get the ball it wasnt red but not many red cards get rescinded

This tackle was nothing like gerrads!!
Tiote clearly wins the ball and did not touch the player! If anything the player clattered into tiote!

And also why do Newcastle have to play a holding player?

My team would be
Harper
Simpson
Taylor
Collo
Enrique
Jonas
Nolan
Barton
Gosling
Carroll
Best
If all fit play thy team, in my eyes if we get beat, we will still have the bragging rights as we won 5-1 can’t see scum beating us by a few goals?

I thought that he broke his ankle and Ed, do you honestly think that Dan Gosling, a player who has not yet played for us and has been out with a serious injury for 9 months, will be put in his debut against Sunderland I think he should put Barton at CDM, Jonas on the right and Lovenkrands on the left. Stick Carroll and Ameobi/Best up front

Ed, I’m not sure if we you WERE comparing Gerrard tackle to Tiote’s, but if so, the only similarities are how they started:

Gerrard
Off the floor prior to contact,
Came in from the side.
Wasn’t in front of the play
Off the floor at the point of contact,
2 footed at the point of contact,
Hit the player,
Didn’t take the ball cleanly,
Went through the ball/player – his intention wasn’t to win possession, just to stop Carrick continuing with it!

Tiote,
Off the floor prior to contact,
Came in from the side,
Was in front of play (so no risk of hitting the player)
On the floor at the point of contact,
Only using one foot,
Used his inside leg, which gaurenteed not taking out the player with his trailing leg,
hooked the ball backwards to maintain possession!

Ok lads all we want is that team spirit we had when CH was in charge!!

I think the cup competitions espeacially in the early rounds should feature the youngens…then as we advance add an extra experienced player..CH was doing something similar, apparently that was his down fall! Not taking the cup(s) seriously enough, but for me it is a great chance to blood the young guns, and get there experience and games up!

Also I think we should try and cash in…or just let Alan Smith go, he is far from the player he was at leeds, never the same since!!!

Whilst we are letting or cashing in on players…Ameobi should go, he is hopeless and injury prone, get ranger more game time so he doesn’t miss chances in front of goal like he did the other day against WHU, like shola has done in the past time and again!

Ed, how can you say that there is no way that NUFC will overturn Tiote’s red card? What sort of nonsense is that? Do you have a hot-line to Pardews mind,or Ashleys thoughts? No I didnt think so, yet another doom and gloom mongering headline. Pack it in, you are better than that. If there is any justice, Tiote’s card will be overturned no problem, because his, and Gerrards tackles were poles apart. Tiote is an honest player who tries to win the ball always, Gerards has got ‘previous’ with this type of challenge, and he meant to ‘do’ Carrick, end of.

Magickit:
sorry mate you are talking about Alan Smith before he broke his leg, when he was a terror to defences and a good player. he is finished now. Go back to your FIFA champ manager for gods sake, or go and actually watch a game.

Ed, Im not being funny or anything but you talk a load of rubbish… some of the things you put on here is stupid.. How do you know it won’t be over turned..? have you all of a sudden became a member of the FA?.. In all honestly you don’t know weather it’ll be overturned.. there was nothing wrong with the tackle.. Pardew spoke to the ref and the ref has admitted he was wrong .. the card should and willl be overturned… Im just sick of your negative storys.. and I think alot would agree with me but just dont have the balls to say.

If Tiote aint available and we don’t sign any1 by Derby day,would u rather have Smith at DM and joey RM or Routledge at RM and Joey CM with Nolan? Also most of u slate Routledge off but if the Scum are going to attack us to try and regain some pride after 5-1,then his pace on the counter attack wil be priceless,besides he is due 1 good cross so u never know,Sunday could be th day he delivers it
my team for Sunday with no new signings – Harper,Simpson,Enrique,Colo,Saylor,Routledge,Joey,Nolan,Jonas,Lovekrnds,Carroll
HTWL

If reports are correct that the referee agreed with Pardew that his decision was wrong, the incident may well be reviewed without newcastle needing to appeal, and the red card can be recinded (providing the review panel does not consist of stevie wonder, roy orbison, and david blunkett) . Of course thats if the referee is man enough to say (publicly) that he made a mistake, and the chances of that are slim.

It helps Graham Poll who used to be head of referees or something after finishing his career as a ref said in his blog that it should of been a yellow using that evidence of a top referee saying that he should get off then again FA dont like us much with the bans on Williamsson and that

Seen it over and over, and that should never been a red card. Not even yellow. It’s a clean tackle, end of. And I dont think it will help that G Poll says it should have been yellow, because he then says that it was a foul and the ref may get away with his decicion.
And please Ed, stop moaning about the offside rule. do you find it hard to keep up with, then you’re getting old! Its easy to understand, and any team should explore the opportunities it brings. I know I would!!

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